Back in Time: Unshackling From Love

Chapter 17

As Mikayla laughed, tears streamed down her face.

Images from her previous life of being beaten, cursed at, and tortured at the mental hospital flashed before her eyes.

In the flashback, the hefty caretaker had gripped her by the hair, forcefully pulling her away and causing her only bowl of plain soup to spill.

They would even forcefully pinch her mouth when she refused to take her medication, shoving handfuls of pills down her throat.

Mikayla always thought it was the mental hospital deliberately tormenting her to please

Jerome.

Little did she know, the demonic woman from the previous life was Kylie’s relative.

So, all the misery she endured in the mental hospital was orchestrated by Kylie.

Thinking about the abuse she suffered and the torment from stomach cancer, Mikayla wished she could immediately strangle Kylie.

Why did she have to be so cruel?

Jerome, who clearly loved Kylie so much, had even sent Mikayla to the mental hospital for the former’s good.

Why wouldn’t Kylie let her go? Why did she have to harm her?

Jerome looked at Mikayla on the floor.

Although she had suggested keeping the audio call on, he still worried that something might go wrong, so he followed her up.

Unexpectedly, he witnessed Mikayla attacking someone as soon as the elevator doors opened.

She lay slumped amidst a chaotic mess of fruits, her eyes vacant, her body seemingly devoid of strength.

Though her face showed a smile, tears flowed incessantly, as if she had suffered some painful and tragic ordeal, radiating endless hatred and resentment.

Strangely, Jerome’s heart didn’t fill with anger at her madness. Instead, a dull ache

serthed within him:

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had just considered going to help Mikayla when he heard Kylie weakly calling out.

Kylie’s bleeding forehead and the red marks on her neck from Mikayla’s grip, Jerome instruct ed the

fetched the first ald kill.

sitting down and then walked

at her arm. “Get

arm, it

felt a bit uneasy.

to apologize? What’s with this madness again?” he asked, furrowing

voice. Her eyes began to focus, and her body gradually

felt a sense of

planning to be with Kylie

was hoarse, and her

brows tightened further

someone’s life over this?”

found the first

trying

woman approached at that moment, carrying the first

up, but she coldly pushed him away.

back to her feet on her own, adjusted her clothes,

wanted to chase after Mikayla to find out what had happened, but

let out a stifled

the one responsible for the disturbance, Jerome paused

coming to a complete stop. “Shall we

her pale face, Kylie shook her head. “I’m fine.”

can you be fine? Another inch deeper, and it would

person just now? Why did she come in and attack you

a faint smile. “She might have misunderstood me.”

You’ve been bullied like this, and you’re still defending her.

round–faced woman, “Aunt Agatha, please go back for now. If there’s

could tell

you need someone to

Jerome asked Kylie, “What just happened? Why did Mikayla